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Too tired to write?
Evidently not.
Too tired to start a new story, though, or work on an old one. And I spent too much of my lunch break reading my friends list; I only have seven or eight minutes left. Blame it on Preser Scott and his link to the Onion Dome. (I know, I know, I didn't have to follow it, yes I'm a good-responsible-for-my-own-actions-Libertarian, it's a joke, OK? I'm kidding.)
I have been awfully tired today. I forgot to take a vitamin this morning. I didn't sleep very well, either.
We got a notice about our lease expiring on December 1. Guess we'd better decide where we're going soon. We don't actually have a lease now; we haven't signed one for years. But it is the anniversary of our lease expiring. Wouldn't help us to point out that we don't have a lease now, anyway. Though what are they going to do, evict us? The apartment complex that took four months to hook our AC/heat to an on-off switch and tell us "That's the best we can do"? Somehow I can't imagine them being much swifter about getting rid of us as long as we paid 'em, well, something.
I did another half hour of writing last night, got around 350 words done. I sense a downward trend on this method. Well, we'll see.
Telling myself that I can count "chapters completed" and not just words doesn't seem to have made any difference in the way I write, so far. I think a big part of it is that I really don't think that I can get 20 points done in a month anyway, so I haven't really tried to match it. And it's a bit more inconvenient to count points. I think I've scored 2 so far this month, but I'm not sure. The trouble is, I'll finish a chapter without covering all the plot points, so I'll need to insert another chapter into the outline. So I don't get a point for "finishing" that, and I don't get a point for "starting" the new one, because my total chapters-remaining count hasn't changed any.
Well. March isn't so far away, anyhow.
Too tired to start a new story, though, or work on an old one. And I spent too much of my lunch break reading my friends list; I only have seven or eight minutes left. Blame it on Preser Scott and his link to the Onion Dome. (I know, I know, I didn't have to follow it, yes I'm a good-responsible-for-my-own-actions-Libertarian, it's a joke, OK? I'm kidding.)
I have been awfully tired today. I forgot to take a vitamin this morning. I didn't sleep very well, either.
We got a notice about our lease expiring on December 1. Guess we'd better decide where we're going soon. We don't actually have a lease now; we haven't signed one for years. But it is the anniversary of our lease expiring. Wouldn't help us to point out that we don't have a lease now, anyway. Though what are they going to do, evict us? The apartment complex that took four months to hook our AC/heat to an on-off switch and tell us "That's the best we can do"? Somehow I can't imagine them being much swifter about getting rid of us as long as we paid 'em, well, something.
I did another half hour of writing last night, got around 350 words done. I sense a downward trend on this method. Well, we'll see.
Telling myself that I can count "chapters completed" and not just words doesn't seem to have made any difference in the way I write, so far. I think a big part of it is that I really don't think that I can get 20 points done in a month anyway, so I haven't really tried to match it. And it's a bit more inconvenient to count points. I think I've scored 2 so far this month, but I'm not sure. The trouble is, I'll finish a chapter without covering all the plot points, so I'll need to insert another chapter into the outline. So I don't get a point for "finishing" that, and I don't get a point for "starting" the new one, because my total chapters-remaining count hasn't changed any.
Well. March isn't so far away, anyhow.
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Er, wait, they're all free.
Umm.
"The first link's quick!"
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... Yes I know it's too far. But it's worth a shot!
Stinkin' Self-Fulfilling Musical Prophecies
Our lease is up at the end of October, and they're currently selling the building. Our current landlord (assuming he hasn't resigned since I last spoke with him) said he'd let us renew our lease early so that the new owners can't up the rent on us when they take over, at least for the first year.
Except I haven't seen it yet. And we're running out of time.
Which is all painfully ironic, because only three months or so ago I wrote a Beauty and the Beast parody called "Renew Your Lease", and the scenarios I described in the lyrics are dangerously close to reality now.
This is the 7th or 8th thing I've written that has "come true", or eerily close.
(I really need to write a song about my becoming a successful, well-paid writer or something.)
Re: Stinkin' Self-Fulfilling Musical Prophecies
You should! What a great idea. :)